Misconduct Found at Space Medicine Research in Japan - Nippon.com

Tokyo, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, oregon JAXA, connected Friday reported misconduct implicit the handling of information connected a now-aborted abstraction medicine experimentation led by Japanese astronaut and doc Satoshi Furukawa.

JAXA reported the misconduct to the subject and wellness ministries arsenic usurpation of ethical guidelines connected aesculapian research.

Furukawa and others started an experimentation successful 2016 that progressive radical surviving successful a closed-environment installation astatine JAXA's Tsukuba Space Center successful the eastbound Japan prefecture of Ibaraki successful an effort to make a accent appraisal strategy for astronauts staying astatine the International Space Station, according to sources astatine the subject ministry and others.

The experimentation was abandoned successful 2019, aft the improper handling of information was discovered during the process, the sources said.

The misconduct does not magnitude to falsification oregon fabrication of information due to the fact that nary insubstantial connected findings from the experimentation was published, the sources said.

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